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Blaine Harden's article (Feb. 18) about Matthew Lukwiya, a doctor who did everything humanly possible to keep his hospital going and his patients comfortable in the face of the Ebola virus, was riveting. I could not put it down. I cried when I read...

March 11, 2001, Sunday

I have come to rely on your magazine as my view into worlds beyond my immediate reach and trust that what I read is not only wonderfully written but factual. That said, however, I will eagerly look for a correction saying that Dr. Matthew did not...

March 11, 2001, Sunday

I was struck by your inclusion of two articles so different in content, one on Dr. Matthew in Uganda and one on Gianni Versace's home in South Beach, Fla. Certainly, I do not feel there is anything wrong with great wealth, but the display of opulence...

March 11, 2001, Sunday

I realized at the conclusion of your article that, unlike with other stories you are moved by but helpless to do something about, there is, in this case, a way for readers to offer real help. Would it be possible for you to start a fund for the...

March 11, 2001, Sunday

In the last few hours before he died, Simon Ajok seemed to explode -- first in blood, then in aggravation. The burly male nurse, who had contracted Ebola while caring for patients in an isolation ward at St. Mary's Hospital in northern Uganda, was...

February 18, 2001, Sunday

To the Editor: Re ''Death of a Dedicated Ugandan Healer'' (Editorial Notebook, Dec. 25), by Tina Rosenberg: Diseases like Ebola, AIDS and malaria require a military-style, no-holds-barred response. Tragically, the United States and other Western...

January 1, 2001, Monday

Every few days, usually in the late afternoon, two new friends meet for a long talk. Sometimes it lasts three hours, and sometimes people come from other huts to listen. They talk about other patients in the hospital who died around them, painfully,...

December 26, 2000, Tuesday

The Ebola virus has killed 162 people in Uganda in the last three months. This is the story of death No. 156, that of Dr. Matthew Lukwiya, the medical superintendent of Lacor hospital. He first identified the Ebola outbreak in October, and led the...

December 25, 2000, Monday

The doctor who had led Uganda's two-month battle against the Ebola epidemic died of the disease today, throwing the country into mourning. Dr. Matthew Lukwiya, the medical superintendent at St. Mary's Hospital in Lacor, died on Tuesday morning...